The Board of Supervisors of the Township of Edgmont, Delaware
County, Pennsylvania, finds it to be in the best interest of the residents
of Edgmont Township that contractors who engage in construction activities
in Edgmont Township shall be required to register with the Township,
pay a license fee and secure a license from the Township prior to
engaging in such construction activities.
The following words, terms and phrases, as used in this chapter,
whether or not capitalized, shall have the following meanings, unless
the context clearly indicates otherwise:
BUILDING INSPECTOR
The duly appointed Building Inspector of the Edgmont Township
and shall include the duly appointed Deputy Building Inspector, Building
Department, Fire Marshal, Deputy Fire Marshal, and the Township Engineer.
CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES
The erection, alteration, repair, renovation, rehabilitation,
demolition or removal of any building or structure and the excavation,
filling, grading and landscaping of lots in connection therewith.
CONTRACTOR
Any person who, as a prime contractor or as a subcontractor,
engages in construction activities and building trades within Edgmont
Township, including, without limitation, mechanical, electrical, blasting,
specialty, elevator, roofing, home improvement contractors, and earth
disturbance and grading contractors. The term shall not include any
bona fide employee of an owner of the premises where work is to be
performed.
OWNER
Any person, agent, firm or corporation having a legal or
equitable interest in any building, structure or lot.
PERSON
An individual, partnership, corporation, trust association,
owner, contractor, salesman or other legal entity.
The following persons are not required to register with Edgmont
Township and obtain a license as a contractor:
A. An owner serving as his own contractor and performing construction
activities on his own property.
B. An individual who performs labor or services under the supervision
of a registered and licensed contractor for wages or salary.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
A. Any person who violates or permits the violation of this chapter
shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial
District Judge in the same manner provided for the enforcement of
summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure,
be guilty of a summary offense and shall be punishable by a fine of
not more than $1,000, plus costs of prosecution. In default of payment
thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding 90 days. Each day or portion thereof that such violation
continues or is permitted to continue shall constitute a separate
offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated shall also
constitute a separate offense.
B. Any construction performed by an unregistered and unlicensed contractor
may be subject to removal at the property owner's expense.
C. In enforcing the provisions of this chapter, the Township may avail
itself of any other remedy it may have at law or in equity.